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Abu Hamza

Finally, after a decade or more of fighting extradition from the UK, Abu Hamza has been deported to the US. He's tried every court in the land and inevitably the European Court of Human Rights too. Finally, yesterday afternoon, the High Court dismissed a last ditch ruse to stay in the UK and Hamza has been bundled onto a flight to the US where he faces trial.

I hope you guys in the US are as pleased to be getting him as we are to see him go.

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Meanwhile, it has emerged that the Queen had voiced concerns about the inability of authorities to arrest a man she felt must have broken UK laws.

The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner said the Queen spoke to the home secretary at the time and "was upset that her country and her subjects had been denigrated by this man who was using the country as a platform for his very violent views".

The BBC later made a statement saying the conversation between Frank Gardner and the Queen should have remained private and that it 'deeply regretted' the breach of confidence.

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Yes, I saw that. It comes to something when even Her Majesty, in whose name all criminal prosecutions in the UK are made, feels that the law is inadequate. Time for the law to be tightened up and all the human rights nonsense to be reviewed IMHO.

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Maybe the government could trot him out for Halloween and recoup some of the cost of the whole business.

"Thirty-one* states allow all qualified citizens to carry concealed weapons. In those states, homosexuals should embark on organized efforts to become comfortable with guns, learn to use them safely and carry them. They should set up Pink Pistols task forces, sponsor shooting courses and help homosexuals get licensed to carry. And they should do it in a way that gets as much publicity as possible. "

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Hopefully Assange is next.

"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.'' - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.